Visiting Scholar

Bob Triest is a visiting scholar at the Center and a Senior Economist and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Prior to joining the Boston Fed in 1995, Triest was an Associate Professor of economics at the University of California – Davis. He has also been on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, and spent a year at the Bureau of the Census as an ASA research associate.

Triest’s research has focused on topics in public sector economics and labor economics. He has published articles in various professional journals, as well as in Boston Fed publications. Triest has organized conferences, and co-edited the resulting conference volumes, on Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change (with Jane Little) and Social Security Reform: Links to Saving, Investment and Growth (with Steven Sass).

Triest earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and received a B.A. degree from Vassar College.

Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research

Completed
"An Assessment of Life-Cycle Funds" (with Mauricio Soto, Alex Golub-Sass, and Francesca Golub-Sass), Working Paper, #2008-10, May 2008.

Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages" (with Margarita Sapozhnikov), Working Paper, #2007-14, October 2007. 

"A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age" (with Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Natalia Zhivan), Working Paper, #2007-19, October 2007.

"Optimal Retirement Asset Decumulation Strategies: The Impact of Housing Wealth" (with Wei Sun and Anthony Webb),Working Paper, #2006-22, November 2006.

"Population Aging and the Structure of Wages" (with Steven A. Sass and Margarita Sapozhnikov), Working Paper, #2006-5, February 2006.

"National Saving and Social Security Reform" (with Andrew Eschtruth), Just the Facts, #15, April 2005.

"How Do Pensions Affect Expected and Actual Retirement Ages?" (with Alicia H. Munnell and Natalia A. Jivan), Working Paper, #2004-27, November 2004.